👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will practice comparing snack prices, adding totals, checking if they have enough money, and understanding simple spending decisions.

Vocabulary
snack, price, spend, total, change, cost

Teaching Notes

• Use familiar snacks: crackers, juice, fruit cups.
• Explain how to read prices and compare cheaper vs. more expensive items.
• Model adding two small prices ($1–$4).
• Practice with different wallet amounts.
• Encourage students to explain their spending choices.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Snacks have different prices.
We must check our money and see if we have enough before we spend.
Sometimes we have to choose only one snack.

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need:
Picture cards: crackers ($2), juice ($3), fruit cup ($2), cookie ($1)

What You Do:

1. Students get $5.
2. Choose 1–2 snacks.
3. Add up the prices.
4. Stay within the $5 total.
5. Share snack choices.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — a small food
• — how much something costs
• — money left after paying

Words to Learn

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Questions to Answer

Story:
Noah goes to a snack cart with $5.
He wants crackers for $2, juice for $3, and a cookie for $1.

1. How much do the crackers cost?

2. How much does the juice cost?

3. How much does the cookie cost?

4. If Noah buys crackers and juice, what is the total?

5. Does he have enough for crackers + juice?

6. How much money is left after buying crackers + juice?

7. Can he still buy the cookie afterward?

8. What could Noah change if he wants a cookie too?

🧮 Finance Math Practice

1. Crackers cost $2. You have $4. Enough?

2. Juice costs $3. You have $2. Enough?

3. Cookies cost $1. You buy 2. Total?

4. Snacks cost $2 and $2. Total?

5. You have $5. You spend $3. Left?

6. Fruit cup costs $2. Juice costs $3. Total?

7. You have $4. You want a $4 snack. Enough?

8. You have $3. Cookie costs $1. Left after buying it?

9. You buy snacks for $1 + $3. Total?

10. You pay $5 for snacks costing $4. Change?

Reflection

• Why do we need to check snack prices before buying?

• If you had $5, which snack would you buy first?